Improvement in washing photographic prints



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARCUS ORMSBEE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 46,927, dated March 21,1865.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARCUS ORMsBEE, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Washing,Pressing, and Squeezing Photographic Prints; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, making part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a front view showing the rollers inelevation and the elastic cloth in section, the section being taken inthe plane indicated by the line fr, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionon the line y y, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

This invention consists in the use of an a-pparatus by whichphotographic prints may be washed more thoroughly and speedily than bythe process hitherto employed. The apparatus is composed, essentially,of a pair of hand-rollers andan elastic or impervious cloth to cover andprotect the printsas the rollers are passed over them and cause thewater to be forced through the prints before it passes off. Thefollowing description will enable any one skilled in the art to which myinvention appertains to fully understand and use the same.

In the drawings, A represents a cloth of rubber or other suitableelastic material, between the folds of which are placed the prints to bewashed. The cloth is spread out upon the inclined table B, so that thewater, which is designated by the blue tint, may iiow down between itsfolds to the prints.

O C are elastic rollers, or rollers having elastic yielding peripheries,journaled in parallel position within a frame, D, provided with ahandle, D', whereby the rollers mayy with facility and rapidity, ifdesired, be moved over and in contact with the surface of the cloth A,so as to force the Water through the prints and then express it frombetween the folds at the end. By these means I am enabled to wash theprints perfectly in a very short time and with little comparative labor.The rollers C C yield in passing over the prints, and hence are notlia-ble to injure the same.

Having thus described my invent-ion, the following is what I claim asnew herein and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The elastic yieldingrollers C G, journaled within the frame D D', in the manner explainedand employed in the process of washing photographic prints,substantially as set forth.

2. In combination with the above, the elastic or impervious cloth A, tocontain the prints between its folds and receive the direct pressure ofthe rollers, as and for the purpose described.

The above specification of my improved apparatus for washing, pressing,and squeezing photographic prints signed this 8th day of February, 1865.

MARCUS ORMSBEE.

Witnesses:

ALEX. A. (l. KLAUCKE, G. D. SMITH.

